Tracking your training is a really important step to ensure that your dog is progressing in something you want to improve. This is particularly important if the behaviour you’re addressing is one that you find undesirable because it gives you an objective measure of improvement. This means that you don’t feel like the behaviour is […]
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Dog training is a physical skill. It involves a lot of different aspects, both human and dog, and that’s before you’ve even looked at the environment you’re in! I often get told that I make an exercise look easy. The truth is that I should! I spent my life training dogs, working with my own
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This is another development of the tutorial released last week. This time we’ll be working with food on the floor. Often dogs find the change from handheld food to food on the floor a challenge so this is worth working on to make sure that your dogs really understand the concept. Part 1 of this
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Dog training has gone through (or is going through, depending on who you talk to) a revolution. Previously, the onus of good behaviour was on the dog. It was their responsibility to behave, to mind read what we wanted and to avoid things they disliked as a result of that. Now, the onus is on
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Its yer choice is a great development from the zen hand tutorial released last week. Depending on how you develop this, it can be used to add duration to your behaviours (in the form of reverse luring), or used to develop your impulse control further to teach your dog to wait around treats on the
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The biofeedback model is a brain baby of Dr. Karen Overall. It works on the theory that you can use body movements to trigger certain physiological states. The most obvious example of this is teaching a hip popped down or ‘settle’ or using Dr. Karen Overall’s relaxation protocol. I love this method of training because
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Zen hand is a fabulous exercise to start teaching your dog self control. If you work through it systematically you can also teach your dog the concept of staying still in the presence of fast movement, which is something a lot of dogs struggle with in any exercise. There is also a video version of
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As we head into the New Year and we’re all thinking about our goals for the year (in my case 90% of them happen to be dog related!), I thought I’d write a bit about how to easily fit training into a busy day. The more training becomes part of your daily life, the more
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It’s easy to think that your dog trainer’s dogs were born perfect. Very often the things we post on social media focus on the good, describe improvements and are generally focussed on the good things about our dogs. With this in mind, I’m writing this blog post to try and help people understand how much
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Often training a dog takes time. Depending on the skill or behaviour being taught, it can take an awful lot of time. It’s important to keep this in mind when training, especially if you’re beginning to feel disheartened or that your dog isn’t making progress as quickly as you had hoped. Personally, I’m not one
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